Comb-cleaner.



PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

G. A. ROBBINS. COMB CLEANER.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.12, 1904.

' gag; d Wm UNTTED STATES Patented May 9, 1905.

GEORGE A. ROBBINS, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

COMB-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 789,674, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed December 12, 1904. Serial No. 236,523-

To on whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. ROBBINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have inventedanew and useful Improvement in Comb-Cleaners; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon,

to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of a comb-cleaner constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, an end view of the same; Fig. 3, atop or plan view; Fig. 4:, a vertical sectional view; Fig. 5, a transversesectional view illustrating a modification in the arrangement of the bars connecting the sides of the frame.

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for cleaning combs, and particularly to that class in which a frame is provided over which threads may be strung and so that they may be removed from time to time, the object of the invention being a simple arrangement of parts whereby the thread may be conveniently arranged, readily removed, and by means of which the comb may be thoroughly cleaned; and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention I employ a LJ-shaped head or frame 2, having teeth 3 at opposite edges, the teeth being bent outward and downward into hook shape. This head is secured to a handle 4, which, as herein shown, is hollow to contain, a brush 5, the handle 6 of which forms the outer end of the handle of the cleaner and is screwed into or firmly engaged with the handle 4. Preferably and as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings the bottom of the frame is provided with an annular recess 7 to receive the upper end of the handle 4. Between the sides of the frame are two or more parallel bars 8, preferably connected at their ends to form a rectangle, the ends of which are riveted to the sides of the frame, or two or more independent bars might be employed. These bars are slightly bowed at their upper edges, so that the central portion comes into line with the teeth 3, and in the upper edge are notches 9. On each side of the frame and at opposite ends is a clip or finger 10, beneath which the ends of the threads may be slipped, so as to be held thereby, and in one edge of the frame is a cut to form a cutter 11. One end of the thread is passed beneath one of the clips and then passed back and forth from one side of the frame to the other and beneath the teeth, so as to form a series of parallel threads, the other end of the thread being secured beneath the other clip, and it may be readily severed by the cutter 11, the threads standing substantially in a plane with the upper edge of the central portion of the bars 8.

In use the threads pass between the teeth of the comb, and so that the accumulations thereon may be removed, the cleaner being given aswinging movement. Frequently the accumulations at the upper ends of the teeth of the comb become solidly packed, and if so the bars 8 will remove it, the notches in the bars 8 catching the material and, in a sense, cutting it out. The brush in the handle will be found convenient in brushing the comb after the cleaner has been used. After using, the thread may be readily removed and another replaced, so as to be ready for future use.

Instead of riveting or permanently securing the bars 8 to the frame they may be removably secured thereto by screws 12, as shown in Fig. 5. I therefore do not wish to be understood aslimiting the invention to the exact construction shown, but hold myself at liberty to make such departures therefrom as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A comb-cleaner comprising a U-shaped frame having wide sides, a series of teeth at the edge of each side, a handle connected with said frame, and transverse bars between the sides of the frame near their outer edges, substantially as described.

2. A comb-cleaner comprising aframe having wide sides outwardly and downwardly turned teeth at the edge of each side, bars between the sides of the frame near their outer edges, and a handle attached to the central portion of the frame, substantially as described.

3. A comb-cleaner comprising aframe having wide sides outwardly and downwardly turned teeth at the edges of each side, transverse bars secured between the sides of the frame near their outer edges, said bars having notches in their outer edges, and a handle I0 attached to the central portion of the frame.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE A. ROBBINS,

Witnesses:

FREDERIO G. EARLE, NELsoN C. DAVIDSON. 

